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A worker collects dried incese at the Meizhengxiang Incense Factory near Xiamen, Fujian Province, China. As religous life increasingly becomes an important part of China, businesses related to religion such as Buddhism and Daoism have flourished. The factories have seen its sales quadruple since its establishment in 1996, reaching euro 5 million in 2003. The factory now employs over 200 workers, mostly migrants from Sichuan and Jiangxi Province..17-MAR-04